The parents also have one-month-old babies.

Given how much gun violence there has been going around in recent months, one can imagine how horrified police in Evansville, IN, were when they saw a video in which a tiny child holds a real handgun while an adult male voice urges the little one to "shoot that thang" and go "bang bang."

Police arrested Michael Barnes on Thursday after he attempted to sell a handgun to an undercover officer. It was during the follow-up investigation that the disturbing video surfaced. Police believe Barnes is the male voice in the video, although he is not the father of the one-year-old.

The toddler's 22-year-old mother, Toni Wilson, was standing nearby at the time of the recording and was therefore taken into custody for child neglect, criminal recklessness with a deadly weapon and allowing a child to possess a firearm. When questioned, she claimed the gun was a pellet gun, but police said it was a .40 caliber handgun. The 12-month-old, whose face has been blurred for privacy, has been taken into emergency care, and will hopefully have a home one day soon that is safer than this one.

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